Three Things I Hope My Kids Know About Money
I was lucky. My Dad taught me about money management, how to set a budget, how to save for big purchases, how to balance a checkbook (back in the day when that was done on paper) and how to have good credit. He also passed on his money philosophy – don’t spend...
Journal With Me: What’s Your Money Story?
I’ve been writing a lot about values over the last several months. When I use the word values, I mean the ideas that YOU believe are important. Knowing what’s important to you is like having a compass for your life, something that I have found enormously helpful in my...
Journal with Me: Your Money Story
What’s your money story? How did you learn about money? Did you parents have the same ideas and values around this topic or did they each have their own ideas? If they had different ideas, did they find compromise between their visions? How about you? Do you know how...
How to Start Financial Literacy with Little Kids
With tax day this week here in the U.S., it’s a great time to think—and talk about money. If you have kids heading off to college, it’s essential that you’ve covered Financial Literacy 101 with them. If your kids are younger, even better. Like talking about sex and...